RELEVANT BOOKS SUPPORTING DAVID'S THESIS
(THAT HE HAS READ COVER TO COVER)
ON AL QAEDA
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll, 2004
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States by National Commission on Terrorist Attacks, 2004
The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11--and America's Response by Paul Thompson, 2004
Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror by Rohan Gunaratna, 2002
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, 2006
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden by Bruce Lawrence, 2005
The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader by Peter L. Bergen, 2006
Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden by Peter Bergen, 2002
Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror by Richard Clarke (the longest serving counterterrorism advisor to the American presidency), 2004
Through Our Enemies Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam and the Future of America by Michael Scheuer (former head of the CIA's Bin Laden Unit), 2006
The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse by Paul L. Williams (a former FBI consultant), 2005
Osama's Revenge: THE NEXT 9/11 : What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You by Paul L. Williams (a former FBI consultant), 2004
The Road To Al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man by Montasser al-Zayyat, 2004
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism by Simon Reeve, 1999
When You Ride Alone You Ride With Bin Laden: What the Government Should Be Telling Us to Help Fight the War on Terrorism by Bill Maher, 2003
ON RELATED ISSUES:
Neo-conservative foreign policy plan
(policy document) Rebuilding Americas Defenses by the Project for the
New American Century, 2000
(policy document) The National Security Strategy of the United States, The White House, 2002
Nuclear Terrorism
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe by Graham Allison (former assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans), 2004
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning by Martin Rees, 2004
Abrahamic Religions
Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths by Bruce Feiler, 2002
The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels by Thomas Cahill, 1999
Napoleon and Hitler as Modern Models of World-War Provoking Messiah Pretenders
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shire, 1967
Napoleon and the Awakening of Europe by Felix Markham, 1975
Napoleon and Hitler: A Comparative Biography by Desmond Seward, 1989
9/11 Commission Shortcomings
The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon, 2008
China's Potential To Support Al Qaeda
Unrestricted Warfare: China's Master Plan to Destroy America by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, 2002